Milgram Takes Prize In Social Psychology

The American Association for the Advancement of Science last week awarded Its Socio-Psychological Prize to Stanley Milgram, assistant professor of Social Psychology.

Milgram received the $1000 prize for his essay, "Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority," which reports his research on the conditions under which subjects will submit to authority in performing destructive acts.

The essay notes that civilized men have a very powerful disposition to obey authority whether good or evil.

Milgram conceived of the research while a graduate student at Harvard in the Department of Social Relations (Ph. D. '60) and carried out the experiments over a three year period while serving on the Yale Faculty.